After a blissful and relaxing New Years and trip south to Cronulla, Narooma and Bendalong, Ryan and I are now on the road north.
The trip to the South was about 5 nights, camping out in church parking lots and staying at his uncle's holiday trailer park. Lots of fun chasing kangaroos, petting and feeding stingrays, listening to lorikeets, parrots and kookaburras. Drinking a lot of rum, visiting with the cousins and the uncles and aunties, lawn bowling - good wholesome fun. :-)
As we were leaving Narooma, we learned that one of Ryan's cousins had their car break down and Ryan's Dad decided to sell them the commodore aka the party wagon we were traveling in. Ryan was a bit stressed at this point as we were without a free car, and he'd rather chew his own face off than rent one for us to drive around in.
Luckily one of Ryan's oldest friends Chappo had a car he was leasing that needed to get more miles put on it (Yeah, I don't really get it either...) so he offered to lend it to Ryan and I so we could travel up north to Queensland - sweet!!
Oh no wait....
Some of you may have been hearing about Queensland flooding in the news. When we woke up at his parents house this morning, packing up the car to leave, we see on the news that there was a flash flood in Towumba and so far 8 people have been found dead. These folks had no warning and now we're hearing that Brisbane is getting evacuated. Ho. Ly. Shit.
We hit the road anyways, drove for about 3 hours and stopped at a pub in Shoal Bay. It was pretty weird being the only Canadian in the room standing around the tv with locals watching the news come in about this being the worst flooding in 30 years. The rain has been super bad in Queensland and even here in NSW it's been overcast and shitty, the gorgeous white sand beaches aren't as rad as usual.
So Ryan's a bit let down that he can't show me all the good things that he wanted to. But he knows that I'm down to do whatever and I'm just happy to chill out, see the sights in Sydney or head south. We're also loosely talking about heading back here in a few months to help with the rebuilding.
At this point we're basically chilling out at his uncles' place in Shoal Bay, watching the news and judging if we should push on up the coast or head back. The Premier just issued a statement saying to stay the fuck out of Brisbane so we may be heading back South in a couple days.
Info on flooding
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